113-107

So the Lakers just won the NBA Championship for the third year in a row.
You know how I know that I am 100% Los Angeles sports fan?
As soon as the game was over, I turned on the local news channel so that I can watch the victory riot.
So far, it’s pretty bush league, but I’m sure they’ll be flipping over cars within the hour.
UPDATE: Dang. The LAPD got in there with their rubber bullets and tear gas, and they didn’t even let the fans start one fire.
Oh well. There’s always the victory parade.

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101 thoughts on “113-107”

  1. Oh, and you know what I effing LOVE about these post-game interviews?
    These guys are so. Incredibly. STUPID.
    *lol*

  5. But…but…there are none of those little flag thingies on the cars so they won’t be able to tell which cars NOT to flip over! *whimper* 😛

  6. Yeah well don’t think the lakers are going to get out of NJ alive. Right now some italian business associates are “taking care of business”. The great thing is that the arena is right in the meadowlands so they only have to walk about 100 feet off the parking lot to dump the bodies.
    FUCK YOU L.A.!!!!

  8. I’d post something pithy and profound, but I want a new TV, and it looks like this riot is going to have a pretty short window…
    ::runs to the electronics store with rock raised high::
    Yea, Lakers!!! 😉

  10. Dude i love Sports but not enough to go out and flip huge cars all by my self i need at least 5-8 friends hence the riots— Ha Ha Ha… Way to go Lakers!!!

  13. The LAPD actually doing something smart?! The world is coming to an end.
    I feel so disappointed living in the Midwest…I’ve never gotten to participate in a Sports riot, even though my hometown has had its own share of wins over the years in various sports. We don’t set fires, we just honk our horns.
    Oh yeah…I just remembered where our current football team came from.
    Wil…as galestorm pointed out..you made another typo….you need more sleep…

  15. I have to say, I really hate the Lakers. Congratulations to them anyway; they are the best team in the league right now. What I hate even worse than the Lakers, though, is Jim Gray!! Every person he EVER interviews, he asks the same damn question. “How does this make you feel?” Now, he does have about 20 different versions of this question, but it is basically the same question. It is the ONLY question he ever asks!!!grrr! I’m glad your team one, they are the best, but I still hate them!

  17. aww, you fixed the amusing typing error. now what will i do for fun, if i can’t laugh at that?
    sorry. kidding. hope you enjoyed the riots, anyhow. :]

  19. Totally off topic.
    Just curious, but what service do you use to log your statistics (e.g., visits total, broken down by IP)?
    I’m having a bitch of a time finding a good free one for my site.

  20. I’m glad the Lakers won just so that I don’t have to suffer through any more of this bullshit NBA season. It’s over at last and the team they pre-selected to win won so what’s the big fuckin breu-ha-ha all about anyway? Besides I’m fucking pissed because there was a reject from the state school for the mentally retarded manning the register at IHOP about an hour ago. I thought the idiots out celebrating the Lakers winning was bad but that wasn’t shit compared to the incompetent motherfucker that worked there. I’d pay for ya’ll to send some of those rioters this way… eh nevermind.

  21. was there a basketball game someplace?
    I was busy watching the “world football” on the
    tele, that and watching paul and the new bride..
    were was ringo?
    Wil, must have slept well did we?
    with the games over and
    if you have time ther Wil, try and clean up the garage, or keep the door down, please..
    there could be talk among the neighbors lad,
    remember, it’s all about “property values”
    (do you rent or own ?)
    just pullin your leg lad,
    🙂

  24. You realize it’s all Phil Jackson, right? I used to think that sports teams were all players and that any idiot could manage. Then the Bulls (Chicago is my home turf even though I live in Cali now) won seven in a row. Of course, it probably had a bit to do with Jordan and Rodman and Pippen, but Rodman and Pippen moved on and didn’t do nearly as well where they ended up. It’s all Phil Jackson, I’m tellin’ you.
    And now I’m waiting for the day that Satan calls in his tab.

  25. The last time Philly had a championship, mullets and mustaches weren’t just for porn stars.

  26. You know, in S Korea they decided to hire a whole boat-load of female police officers to stop the world cup rioters. They figured that the foreigners would be more likely to respect women officers.
    Yeah…nobody more respectful than a really drunk and pissed of soccer fan!

  27. Uh Wil, isn’t there are riot in L.A. every night? I heard it only grows in proportion when there is a reason, like some L.A. sports team victory? I know ‘back under rock now.’ I’m going.

  28. All right, I’m from NJ and haven’t watched a b-ball game since Jordan retired from the Bulls, but I must congratulate the Lakers anyway. Congrats! 🙂 Now, I have a totally off-topic question, but since a while back we were talking about turning 30, I thought this might be the place to ask it. Way back in the foggy reaches of my memory, I remember a children’s book that was basically a catalog of all kinds of neat stuff you could order. It wasn’t a real catalog, mind you; the only thing I can actually remember from it was a faucet that would spew out anything you wanted it to, and the example they gave in the book was ginger ale, and they had it filling a pool so you could swim in it. At the end of the book, the instructions were to cut out your order form and stick it in the hollow of a tree, so the witch could come get it and deliver your goods. I know it sounds crazy, but I’m not making this up. If anybody has any info on this book, would you please e-mail me at [email protected]? I would love you forever. Thank you so much! 🙂
    Love, Alicia
    http://www.thewagband.com

  29. Oh, Wil.
    I sincerely hope that was a tongue-in-cheek post. My personal belief is that if the fans of a championship team riot or commit other forms of mayhem (and I’m talking about professional, semi-pro and college), their team is automatically ineligible for the next TWO championships. Automatically. No appeals, no reversals, no reviews, no reductions in penalty.
    I’m so tired of people using any excuse to go out and act like anarchy reigns.
    I fear when Detroit finishes wins the Stanley Cup.

  30. As some one else pointed out, its been a really long time since any of the teams from the big 4 sports won a championship. I’d really like to see one but I’m kind of afraid of the riots that may result. By the way, could some one explain that too me? Hey! We won! Let’s go destroy the city! Not that I get the Hey we lost, let’s go destroy the city mentality, either.
    So, whats this talk I hear on the local news around here (Philly)? Shaq may not return to play next year? I am not a Shaq fan at all. Regardless, I don’t think he should retire. Unless he is more banged up & hurt than we realize. Is anyone else hearing this information anywhere?

  31. Um… go Kings.
    And not the shit hockey team. The ones who outplayed the Lakers in 5 out of 7 games in the Western Conference Finals. *Sniffle*
    I suggest people go to ESPN.com’s Page 2, and reading the “Letter to Shaq”. I’d give the link, but I’m too lazy. 🙂
    Enough whining for me. Congrats to the Lakers, and all that jazz… back to sniveling about the Kings with me…

  32. “The LAPD got in there with their rubber bullets and tear gas, and they didn’t even let the fans start one fire.”
    Humm. Well. That’s no fun.

  33. Congrats, Wil, to you and the Lakers.
    Funniest celebration this past year was the Super Bowl when the Pats won. It was so sudden and unexpected, both the people AND the cops in Boston didn’t know what to do. No damage, a few people dancing on cars, some arrests, and the cops watched on just making sure no one was hurting themselves or property.

  34. YEAH BUTTERKNEES!!!
    GO KINGS, THE REAL CHAMPS!! The ones who didnt get a damn thing because the DIDNT “Start with a C and ends with a T”.
    For the record i hate SHAQ, WALTON, & GRAY. Get those three out of the NBA and things will be purrrrrrrfect!
    Funniest thing shaq has ever said was to Gray the other day after game 3
    O’neal to Gray: “Tyson should have knocked you out last night”
    TOO DAMN FUNNY. I think thats the only intelligent thing Shaq has probably said in his life. KAZAM!!! hahahaha what a moron. CAN YA FEEL THE NEGATIVITY ABOUT THIS FLOWING OUT OF ME??
    Anywho, enjoy your rioting. Bibby….Resign him….Peja back in full health = perfect team.
    THE KINGS HAVE AN ALL STAR TEAM! You have two players. Without those players your nothing. If we lose one of our star players….no biggie we still dominate….if you lose one of those two…its over.
    THROW THAT DOWN BIG MAN, THROW THAT DOWN!
    GO KINGS!
    Lisa Marie

  35. You know how it goes Wil. If you want anything done, get out there and do it yourself.
    Why wasn’t your saggy butt out there trying to flip cars then?

  36. Re: Kahuna’s comments.
    Let me say that if your whole ‘miss two championships’ thing were gospel law. I’d have gone to Detroit after they SWEPT my beloved Flyers and started a riot.
    And also, as an anarchist, I take umerage to the inference that anarchy is some how associated to senesless violence and drunk basketball fans wrecking shit because their team won a goddamned game.
    Anarchy isn’t the absence of laws, it’s the absence of abusive authority, and mutual respect between soveriegn individuals.

  37. 2 words for Kings fans – free throws. You have a great team. Better luck next year.
    Until then – YEAH LAKERS!!!

  38. Wil,
    I know what you mean about the quality of the riots going down in recent years. Why, back when I was in college, we had Vietnam to riot against and let me tell you, those were the days! Actual teargas and campus cops learning how to use their clubs on prone students.
    I went back to school in the late 1980s to work on a masters’ degree and the kids then were rioting against apartheid. But, instead of tearing apart bookstores and trashing the student union and spitting at cops, what do you suppose they did? They built shantytowns in the middle of campus and whined because they couldn’t get electricity out in the cardboard shacks to run their hair dryers and boomboxes while they were protesting.
    Hell of a way to run a protest, I say.
    Us veterans, we just stood there and shook in silent mirth at these wannabe rioters.
    I hear tell today that the most anti-establishment thing they do at my alma mater is get together and burn sofas on the lawns of frat houses.
    So, buck up Wil. Nothing is ever the same — not even after-sports-event riots.
    With tongue firmly in cheek, I remain,
    Yr. Obt. svt.

  40. Wil, I know you were being tongue-in-cheek, but I gotta speak out:
    Just WHEN did it become OK to destroy people’s private property at the end of every pro & college sports season, win or lose? But I believe the U.S. version started with the NBA.
    And that is the crystalization of the argument that the NBA is the epitomy of what is wrong with professional sports; unbelievable salaries, unfinished educations, and NO repsect for anybody but themselves. Oh yeah, they visit a children’s hospital during their seasons.
    When they had the NBA All-Star game here in Philly this year, I couldn’t wait for all the new-money, jewlery dripping, heavily hair straightened, fake fingenailed, fur coat wearing, SUV driving bitches to get the hell out of town.
    They didn’t give a fuck about anybody but hoping to look like they belonged or be a star fucker. And they drove like maniacs! Not to mention the rest taking up our precious few parking spaces with their goddamned limos.
    Screw the NBA and MLB too for that matter. Hope you’re all looking forward to the baseball strike this year. But what the hell, the NBA, NFL, & NHL are just starting up then. So at least there will some blood sports on TV.

  41. SHRIKE:
    Ive got two words for you FLAGARANT FOUL! Yeah you remember that….game 6????? I know you remember….where Bibby was trying to guard Kobes Elbow with his nose!!
    yeah i know free throws we need to work on, we could have had game 7
    Lisa M

  42. Congrats Lakers.
    Though you could’ve said that as soon as they beat the kings. Let’s face it, if Portland hadn’t traded away Jordan in the draft (Talk about things you regret!), there wouldn’t have been an Eastern (wimp) Conference team with champ rings for at least the past ten years, if not longer.

  43. Y’know, know one outside of LA even cared about the NBA Finals. I can hardly call this 3rd Finals win a victory. The Lakers have no heart. If this were the Magic/Kareem team of yesteryear, people would be talking. As far as this bunch of clowns goes, no one (outside of LA)cares.

  44. Riots? What the hell are you rioting for?
    I mean Jeez…
    I’m from Jersey… I root for the Yankees. I root for the Rangers. I root for the Giants. I root for the Nets.
    Save the Nets, each of them have won a championship in my adulthood (since 1989).
    There were NO riots to speak of…
    And the Rangers hadn’t won a Cup since 1940!!!
    People seem to think that winning a championship in some sport gives you a free pass to be a wild and crazy as you want. It’s a free “steal an appliance of your choice” card.
    Get a life, folks.
    Everybody is so afraid of New York… Then how come, if we’re so crazy over here, WE can celebrate in peace? No fires. Cars with all four tires on the road. No deaths. Nothing. Just a bunch of happy people going out and getting drunk and partying.
    L.A., serious congrats. The better team won. But you need to grow the hell up. Jeez! It’s not like the Lakers have never won anything before…

  45. can you tell im bored at work??
    GREG: REGARDING NO ONE OUTSIDE OF LA CAREING….Your right…although i did watch the games because i was rooting for the NETS…but this years finals had the lowest standings since 1981. NO ONE CARED.
    I like Kobe, he is amazing…and they have some great up and coming players ie. Horry and I really like Fisher…its guys liek FOX & O’NEAL that make me want to put this team out of its missery.
    Today a Laker fan said to me “Bitter Table, Party of 1…3 peat….itso k, how many do the Kings have, how many do we have?”
    My Response: “3 cheat, and we have no Rings because we want to EARN OURS, NOT BUY THEM!”
    Next year is our year!!
    KINGS!!!!

  47. THE LAKERS WIN AND THATS ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY!!!
    Spudnuts I am dissapointed in you!!!
    OH THE HUMANITY!!!

  48. I haven’t heard “dang” since junior high. Now you and Lynda Barry both with the dang. Dang!
    Paraphrase from MST3K: Just repeat to yourself, “it’s just a game, I should really just relax…” 😀

  49. That last post was just the bait.
    We’ll soon find out if a Kings fan is foolish enough to take it.
    (resumes crouch in duckblind)

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